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Recreation Recap: Soccer | | John Antonik
Senior Tahj Brooks rushed for 188 yards and three touchdowns in Texas Tech’s 52-15 victory over West Virginia immediately at Jones AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas.
Brooks, the Pink Raiders’ all-time main rusher, concluded the common season having rushed for greater than 100 yards in each recreation he is performed this 12 months. Brooks’ afternoon ended on his 23rd carry with 5:57 remaining.
Quarterback Behren Morton accomplished 28 of his 41 go makes an attempt for 359 yards and two touchdowns earlier than giving solution to backup Will Hammond halfway via the fourth quarter.
Josh Kelly’s 9 catches for 150 yards counted towards Tech’s 568-yard complete offensive efficiency.
“We simply did not play too properly,” West Virginia coach Neal Brown stated. “The second half, we competed, however the first half wasn’t in character with our season, however simply not adequate.”
The Pink Raiders scored on all six of their first-half possessions to take a commanding 35-3 lead at intermission.
Brooks acquired into the tip zone thrice within the opening half on runs of two, 37 and a couple of yards. Tight finish Mason Tharp, who almost made a spectacular, one-handed landing catch on Tech’s opening possession of the sport, caught a 1-yard landing go and Gino Garcia booted area objectives of 32 and 23 yards.
Sandwiched between these area objectives was Michael Hayes II’s career-long 52-yard area aim with 3:47 left within the first quarter. That capped an eight-play, 41-yard drive that consumed 4:40 of the clock.
Each of Tech’s late touchdowns within the first half got here in a span of simply 1:43, and each adopted West Virginia turnovers.
CJ Blankenship wrestled Garrett Greene’s go out of the arms of Hudson Clement over the center earlier than the 2 fell to the bottom at midfield. That arrange Brooks’ 37-yard jaunt that included some poor open-field tackling by the Mountaineers.
The opposite additionally got here through a Greene miscue, this time a fumble on the WVU 35.
Texas Tech (8-4 total and 6-3 in Massive 12 play) sacked Greene thrice within the first half, persevering with a current development for the Mountaineers. West Virginia allowed three sacks in final week’s dwelling win in opposition to UCF and 4 every week prior in a house loss to Baylor.
Tech outscored West Virginia 29-0 and outgained the Mountaineers 232 to 40 within the second quarter alone.
And sadly for WVU, the third quarter was only a continuation of the second. It took the Pink Raiders solely 2:12 to return to the tip zone with Morton finishing the drive with a 31-yard landing go to Caleb Douglas.
West Virginia’s reply was one other empty possession that ended on the Pink Raider 43 when Greene was hauled down 3 yards in need of the marker on his fourth-and-8 scramble.
The Mountaineer protection lastly acquired its first cease of the afternoon on Texas Tech’s eighth possession when security Anthony Wilson Jr. intercepted Morton’s deep go down the center that was supposed for Jalin Conyers on the WVU 10.
Right here, West Virginia’s offense lastly got here to life.
WVU marched nearly the size of the sphere in 12 performs, Greene finishing passes of three, 8, 16, 15 and 11 yards earlier than hooking up with Rodney Gallagher III for a 15-yard rating.
The 2-point conversion go to offensive sort out Wyatt Milum ended up in need of the tip zone, however the play would not have been good anyway as a result of Milum was dominated an ineligible receiver.
That made the rating 42-9, Pink Raiders, and it remained that approach on the conclusion of the third quarter.
Tech added three extra on a 22-yard area aim from Garcia with 12:17 left. The Pink Raider march acquired to the Mountaineer 3, however a false begin penalty and an incomplete go to the far sideline on third and aim required Garcia to kick his third area aim.
West Virginia tallied six extra on White’s 21-yard landing run with 8:38 remaining. The sophomore additionally acquired 27 yards through the drive on a run that required greater than half of the Pink Raider protection to finally deliver him down on the Tech 48.
Inexperienced’s conversion go supposed for Justin Robinson fell incomplete, making the rating 45-15, Texas Tech.
With largely backups now within the recreation, Hammond scored his second dashing landing of the season from the 4 with 3:36 displaying on the clock, ending an 11-play, 64-yard march.
West Virginia completed the afternoon with 405 yards, 265 of these coming via the air from Greene, whereas White had his second-best dashing efficiency of the 12 months with 124 yards on 14 carries.
Operating again CJ Donaldson Jr. led all WVU receivers with 73 yards and 7 receptions.
With immediately’s loss, West Virginia concludes its common season with a 6-6 total report and a 5-4 mark in Massive 12 play.
